Teachers Dupe Students Then Film It and Show Peers

[Bertuzzied]

This is pretty idiotic, and not even remotely funny. Add to the fact they filmed it and passed it to other teachers to laugh at their disappointment.


Roseland public school's graduating students were told last Thursday that they were in for a spectacular year-end field trip to Disney World in Orlando, Fla.

On Friday, both Grade 8 classes were shepherded into a room, shown a video of their Disney dream vacation and given a PowerPoint presentation showing a palm tree-lined resort.

Travel brochures and hotel information were passed around. The flights are super cheap, a teacher said after one student expressed concern over cost.

The kids, ecstatic by now in anticipation, were urged by the teachers to yell out where they were going: "We're going to Disney!" That's when they were told to look at the last slide, which announced their 2013 field trip wasn't to a fabulous Florida funland, but to a Windsor bowling alley.

The reaction apparently caught even some of the pranksters by surprise, with one student-teacher who was in on the joke nearly coming to tears by the looks of dejection that followed.

http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/ontar...947/story.html

[Nehkara]

Wow. That is just ridiculous. Destroys the respect those kids had for their teachers. I would have been furious if this happened to me.

[CaptainCrunch]

That's as cruel as telling your kids that your going to Disney then dropping them off at the Dentist office

[getbak]

One thing kids like is to be tricked.

For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse.

"Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down."

He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke.

I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

[worth]

This is the real travesty here:

One of the teachers recorded the scene on an iPad...

[moon]

I like jokes but I don't really get the end game of this joke other than to be a huge dick to young kids and then to be stupid enough to record it makes it that much worse.

That is a pretty crappy thing to do to anyone but to grade 8 kids seem way out of line.

Maybe I am just getting soft now that I have kids of my own.

[CaptainCrunch]

Yeah . . . your getting soft Moon.

Lets face facts, there was an important lesson learned that day. That lesson

Young People Suck

[Bertuzzied]

Oh and get why they did it in the first place.....

Topolovec said it was explained to him that the prank was designed to stop one of the students from snooping on a teacher's desk, with fake Disney trip information laid out on the Thursday.

"To teach one student a lesson, they humiliated 60 students," said Topolovec.

[FlamesAddiction]

I think people are overreacting. Yes, the teachers shouldn't have done it, but with all the things worth crying about in the world, getting duped into thinking you're going to Disneyland isn't one of them. I bet the vast majority of students shrugged it off.

[Northendzone]

to quote Run DMC - the next time someone is teachin' why don't you get taught?

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Oh and get why they did it in the first place.....

Topolovec said it was explained to him that the prank was designed to stop one of the students from snooping on a teacher's desk, with fake Disney trip information laid out on the Thursday.

"To teach one student a lesson, they humiliated 60 students," said Topolovec.

In my day it wasn't considered a lesson until the 60 kids had beaten on the one kid, and this is way to elaborate, all you really need to do is announce none of the class is getting out early as little Johnny did etc etc then head off to the washroom for a smoke break

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I think people are overreacting. Yes, the teachers shouldn't have done it, but with all the things worth crying about in the world, getting duped into thinking you're going to Disneyland isn't one of them. I bet the vast majority of students shrugged it off.

Exactly.

When I think of being humiliated in school, I think about having my gym shorts pulled down as I was climbing the 'aparatus' or sneezing and having a giant ball of ectoplasm-like snot end up in my hand during a final exam.

[pylon]

I know my 13/14 year old sense of humour, and I would have found this hilarious. I would have found it even more hilarious, the kids that were crying and butt-hurt about it. These kids were pretty much teenagers, and need to toughen up a bit. Bad call by the teachers, but the parents that commented. "My two children were in bed by 5pm and all depressed and sad and need therapy..... blah blah.." Jebus, toughen your frikkin kids up. This would have bugged me for about 2 seconds, and I would have been swatting a tennis ball around in front of my house with a Sherwood with my friends 10 minutes later.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by pylon

I know my 13/14 year old sense of humour, and I would have found this hilarious. I would have found it even more hilarious, the kids that were crying and butt-hurt about it. These kids were pretty much teenagers, and need to toughen up a bit. Bad call by the teachers, but the parents that commented. "My two children were in bed by 5pm and all depressed and sad and need therapy..... blah blah.." Jebus, toughen your frikkin kids up. This would have bugged me for about 2 seconds, and I would have been swatting a tennis ball around in front of my house with a Sherwood with my friends 10 minutes later.

They let it fest for 3 days. Why not rent a shuttle to the airport and them leave them there? that would be even funnier!

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

They let it fest for 3 days. Why not rent a shuttle to the airport and them leave them there? that would be even funnier!

Maybe I would have found it funny because I love bowling, and hate Mickey Mouse.

Stupid Mouse.

edit: And it was only overnight by the way, not three days.

[moon]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

They let it fest for 3 days. Why not rent a shuttle to the airport and them leave them there? that would be even funnier!

Probably would have been funnier if they had walked in with bats beat them to death and told them some BS story about how much tougher they had it as kids and that they should suck it up a take a joke.

[Tinordi]

The Onion headline: "Confirmed: kids gullible and people still ass holes

[Table 5]

Wait, 13 and 14 year olds (ie teens) still like Disneyland? To the point that they are crying and depressed for days? What a bunch of wieners.

I went to Disneyland when I was 11 and even then I felt a little bit too old. By 13 you should be obsessing about the hot girls in class, not Goofy and Mickey.

[pylon]

Seriously, are 13 year old kids this sensitive now? I know everything is about "you're so special" and "everyone is a winner" but I remember the torture kids we went through during frosh week, and hockey team initiations at the same age, and it was just considered paying your dues. I was more worried about the teacher in Jr High that was hauling me out of class and pinning me against the wall by my throat in Junior High threatening to murder me. I know CC on this board know the teacher I am talking about...lol. And I used to wind him up so he would do it more often. It looked so hilarious when his face was redder than a tomato, and that giant vein started pulsing in his temple. And when he finally got busted for this, they hauled my parents into the school, and blamed ME for pushing his buttons and making him mad, and I was the one that got suspended. It was hilarious.

Times are definitely different.

[Dion]